Happy birthday, Girl Scouts!

March 12th is the birthday of Girl Scouts nationally. It marks the date, more than 100 years ago, when Juliette Gordon Low officially registered the organization's first 18 girl members in Savannah, Georgia.

We've come a long way since then. Girl Scouts is the world's largest organization dedicated to creating girl leaders, with 3.2 million active members and an estimated 59 million alumnae.

According to "Girl Scouting Works: The Alumnae Impact Study" (2012) from the Girl Scout Research Institute:

Women who were Girl Scouts as girls display positive life outcomes - sense of self, community service, and civic education - to a greater degree than women who were not Girl Scouts;

Girl Scout alumnae have earned more undergraduate and postgraduate degrees than non-alumnae; and

Alumnae with three or more years of Girl Scouting have higher household income than non-alumnae.